A FATHER and son scored an unlikely family double recently when they BOTH shot hole-in-ones at their local golf course.

On Friday, April 24, whilst playing in a social game of golf with three of his friends, John Stephen Roberts-Jones, 18, managed a remarkable feat by holing his tee-shot on the 355 yard, par 4, fourth hole at Denbigh golf club.

John, who plays off a handicap of 11, used his driver off the tee and astonishingly bagged a fantastic hole-in-one which is some achievement on a hole of that distance given its undulating fairway, a strategically placed tree and a bunker near the green.

"It was unbelievable," explained John, a sixth form pupil at Denbigh High School.

"I was watching as the ball went in the hole and the people I was playing with didn’t believe me that it had gone in to begin with till I walked down to the green. That was my second hole-in-one and my first was a couple of years ago."

Odds on and amateur pulling off the incredible feat are thought to be in the region of one million to one.

Stories of a hole in one on a par four are rare, with only one reported on the professional tour.

A hole in one on a par three is much more common although for a normal club player the odds are still expected to be in the region on 13,000-1 depending on the player’s handicap and the hole they are playing..

Not to be outdone by his son, dad Arthur, 54, managed to make it a family double on the following Monday during a Denbighshire and Flintshire league game at the same course when he too found the hole off the tee.

"I was on the par 3, eighth hole which is 149 yards. When I hit my tee shot I thought it was a perfect shot. When it went in the first thing I thought of was my son," said Arthur, who plays off a 6 handicap and is a former Denbighshire County player.

Arthur was eager to get home to tell John of his third hole-in-one with the latest coming just a couple of days after his son.

"He couldn’t believe it when I told him and he thought it had taken the shine off his a bit! He was very happy and his was completely different to mine as his was a tremendous hit."

With Arthur now leading the hole-in- one count 3-2, the pair are keen to get back out on the course in search of more.of the same.

"It’s John’s turn now," joked Arthur.

"Every time I step onto the tee now I wonder if I’m going to get one. It was unbelievable how we both had the same feeling that as soon as we hit our shots they were going to be good," he added.